Ministry
of Finance Fails to Account for Billions of Shillings in Gov’t
Revenues
Budget for Fiscal year 2003 Estimated at SL SH 97 Billion
with Some Ministries Allotted Highly Inflated Figures-Hargeisa (SL
Times): Somaliland's Ministry of Finance has failed to account for
how at least 19 billion Somaliland Shillings |
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Somaliland
at the cross-roads
(Analysis of local politics in an
election season)By A. Awale Relative peace
and stability prevails in the breakaway Republic of Somaliland.
The guns are quiet, out of sight and away from the streets but
remain stored in the inner recesses of the bedrooms as part of the
much-beloved household assets. Business is vibrant and booming,
despite the export ban arbitrarily imposed by Saudi Arabia on Somali
livestock. Shops and hotels are open and operational, even in the
middle of the nights, without guards. Public spirit is euphoric and
optimism is the order of the day. |
| Somaliland
will Elect UDUB!This is the excellent foppery of the
world! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our
own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon,
and the stars. – In William Shakespeare’s King Lear. |
Somalia
and Survival in the Shadow Of the Global Economy
"Somalia was once considered one of Africa’s few real
nation-states, based upon a shared Somali language and single ethnic
culture.. |
| Is
the Ministry of Information Needed?The
Somaliland government has many ministries that it neither needs nor
affords to maintain. One of these unnecessary and costly
bureaucracies is the Ministry of Information, headed by the
controversial minister, Abdillahi Mohamed Duale. With a staff of
over 100 people |
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The
Biggest Gathering Of Civil Society Organizations
Hargeisa (SL Times): A symposium on civil society in
Somaliland and Somalia will be launched today at the Ambassador
Hotel in Hargeisa. The symposium will be in session until Feb 26,
2003. During this symposium, participants are expected to discuss
studies on the status of civil society in Somaliland and Somalia as
well as donor assistance to development in these two countries. The
reports on these two topics have been undertaken by the
international NGO, NOVIB. |
Censorship
Introduced at Government Owned Media
Hargeisa (SL Times): President Rayale’s government has introduced
censorship at the two media outlets it controls.
Although it has been the norm for managers at government-owned media
to suppress all information deemed by them as critical of, or
embarrassing to the incumbent Administration, the government has
more recently embarked on a policy of complete censorship of all
material issued by the official media. |
| The
elders have spoken-The symposium of Civil Society from Somalia
and Somaliland ended today. Ministers from various agencies of the
government of Somaliland were present led by the Minister of
Planning. |
President
Rayale Inclined Against Enacting a Press Law
Hargeisa (SL Times): According to the UN independent expert on human
right affairs in Somaliland and Somalia, Ghanem al-Najar, Somaliland
President Dahir Rayale Kahin is not interested in introducing a
press law in the country. |
Abdirahman
Tur to Join UDUB
Hargeisa (SL Times): Somaliland’s first President, Abdirahman
Ahmed Ali "Tur" who returned to Hargeisa from a long
self-imposed exile abroad last Monday, has joined the government
party of UDUB, reliable sources said. |
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Working on UNHCR’s road
rehabilitation project - Zeila – Tokoshi Road, Awdal region, 30 km
from the Djibouti border. 8 hours by car from Hargeisa to zeila.
(270 kms).
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Somaliland
Presidential Election Chronicles II
Dr. Abdishakur Sh. Ali
Jowhar
Presidential elections are scheduled in Somaliland for April
14/2003. |
| Silaanyo's
BBC interview-I
am really, really disappointed about Ahmed Mohamed 'Silaanyo'
interview with the BBC's Somali section on 7th February, 2003.February
20,2003 |
| The
First in Somaliland: Journalists Union Launched-Over
60 journalists and owners of media establishments gathered in Min
Singh Restaurant last February 1 to launch the first Journalist
Association in Somaliland.-Feb
19 |
| Somaliland
Citizens Must Fight Against Corrupt Government Officials-(SLTimes)-The
leaders of Somaliland must campaign vigorously to remove corruption. |
| Somalia:
The Futile Quest For Lost Union-In his recent article, Somaliland:
The Myth Of Clan-Based Statehood, Mr. Ali Ismael (Barud) employs |
A
Challenge For the Kulmiye Party to Distance Itself From Rakiya's
Divisive Article And Run A Clean Campaign-
The timing of the article, just a couple of months before the
presidential elections in which Dahir |
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